Malaysia and Singapore are battling it out over their maritime and air borders, in words and Facebook videos for now. The old new Malaysian prime minister seems keen to restart the beef he’s always had towards Singapore.

The world has nothing on South Korea when it comes to beauty product branding. I was already pushed towards Carlsberg and Ashai hand creams in a Seoul sports bar. Now moist face masks have arrived to relax tense skin - branded with the image of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

In Urumqi, a Chinese city divided by deadly racial violence and suppression of its muslim Uighur population, an ethnically mixed baseball team is training to win the national championship. Against all odds.